Mark Willis

Archive for the ‘Military’ Category

HMS Daring’s (D32) on it’s way home, for the first time.

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

So, the first of six new Type 45 Destroyers, HMS Daring, has completed it's sea trials (stage 1) and so has been handed over to the Royal Navy (Dec 2008). Three more ships are currently undergoing stage 1 sea trials, with two more in production. One of the first ...

Anti-Iran propeganda started? USA Can’t stop the Iranian Ostrich sandwich!

Friday, October 17th, 2008

The United States has new intelligence indicating Iran is reorganizing in an effort to assert its influence inside Iraq and may be behind several recent attacks, according to a senior U.S. official who spoke with CNN Monday [13th Oct 2008]. The senior official, who asked to remain anonymous because of the ...

Putin accuses US in Georgia war - report

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin suggested in a CNN interview Thursday that the United States pushed Georgia toward war and said he suspects a connection to the American presidential campaign, the network said. :O Russian news agencies said Putin told CNN that the US seemingly encouraged Georgia's leadership to use force to ...

Iraqi Oil…

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Now that the COALITION countries are bidding for the Iraqi oil fields (which could have over 115 Billion barrels of oil ($17,250,000,000,000 USD worth).... [CNN] The cost of War Everyone is always moaning about the cost of the Afghan/Iraq war, for example it's cost the U.S. about $3 Trillion. But if only half of ...

First Female 4-Star General.

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

The U.S. Army Materiel Command welcomed its new deputy commanding general during a ceremony Tuesday [17th June] morning at AMC headquarters on Fort Belvoir. Lt. Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody is AMC's 43rd DCG and the first woman to hold the position, following Lt. Gen. William E. Mortensen, who retired Monday. Dunwoody was ...